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The Accusative: The accusative case is used for the direct object and after certain prepositions. The most common prepositions taking the accusative case can be remembered using the mnemonic acronym FUDGE...

This tense is used to express something that had happened before something else. It is commonly used in nachdem clauses. You create it by using haben and sein in the imperfect tense, plus a past participl...

The most frequent instance in which the dative case is used in is to show that something is the indirect object of a verb. Secondly, the dative case is used with certain verbs (helfen, geben, antworten). ...

Complex sentences have more than one clause with at least one main clause. Two or more main clauses can be linked in 2 ways: 1. They are joined by a coordinating conjunction like 'und' or 'aber' 2. One su...

Als is used for a sentence that is in the past, for example 'als ich jünger war...' when I was younger. Wenn is used to mean 'if or when' and often has a conditional sense, for example 'wenn ich mehr Geld...